By . Dear Professor:
After my first semester of post-secondary education, I feel I’ve matured a great deal. When I first came to campus, I was shallow and naive, unprepared for the rigours of academic life. But now that I’ve aced Everything 101, I feel qualified to give you some friendly advice on how you might deal with the cohort of incoming students. More...
By . For the past 10 years, student unions have lobbied university administrators to implement fall study breaks. In response to concerns about mental health and stress from the mid-semester workload, schools across the country, including 11 of 20 in Ontario, have introduced fall breaks. More...
By . Dear Student:
Welcome to university, and welcome to my class, which you have taken because “it’s a requirement?”
Yes, you did just ask me a question, more or less: Before buying your first course pack, please practise the annihilation of your upward inflections. More...
By . Many moons ago, when I was a but a wee university newspaper hack, “hurricane Rosie” hit the very respectable groves of Mount Allison University. The Rosie in question was erstwhile Liberal MP Roseanne Skoke, who represented the good people of Central Nova for a spell in the ’90s. Rosie didn’t much like the gays—“Homosexuality is not natural and it is undermining the inherent rights and values of our Canadian family,” she espoused in the House of Commons in 1994—and she took her shtick on the road after being turfed from this institution in 1997. More...
By . If you want to know what life is really like at a university, you should ask a student. For years, Maclean’s has combed through the surveys that universities do themselves to give you a taste of life on campus. While those surveys are a great place to start, they don’t show the whole picture, and some universities don’t share all their results publicly. Plus, most universities only do the surveys once every two or three years. The vibe can change. More...
By Rex Murphy. The most recent reports say there is a crisis in child services in the United States. The cost of daycare spaces has reached absolutely astronomic levels. Placement at the University of Missouri, for example, easily breaks the $40,000 threshold. And if your toddler is lucky enough to squeeze into Yale, which has some of the most craven caregivers, the most swaddled cocoons and safe spaces on the continent, it will set you back a minimum $60,000. Read more...By Marni Soupcoff. Is it too late to save the spirit of debate on university campuses, the very places where dissent is supposed to be valued for its contribution to fresh and vibrant thought? 
Every post-secondary institution in Saskatchewan has agreed to work towards closing the aboriginal education gap. By Andrea Bellemare. Arman Aryapour wants to help university students in Ontario pay back their student loans by providing them with a place to live while they're completing their undergraduate degree, and then giving them back half of their rent money upon graduation. Read more...By Shari Okeke. After giving just a few tutoring sessions to Syrian refugees online, Meg Rapp is already emotionally invested in their future and hopes to meet them if their dreams of attending university in Canada come true. Read more.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
